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Hi. My name is Kirsten Segler from The Greenery and what we want to do in this
segment
talk about Trailing Petunias. Aren't they just beautiful?
Just like all our other annuals throughout the season, we do trial these so
when we close end of June,
we take down the show plants. We give them a hard haircut,
transplant them out into pots and display them in the full sun
in the parking lot and from there we have chosen
some of our favorite colors. New varieties,
small-time, standard varieties you must have like the waves for example
and now we're just gonna go through them and just give you
a few examples of how to use them. There's also
quite a bit of a degree in there, bigger
so we're gonna go through as well the most vigorous ones here are in the back.
As we move to the front of the scene here, they do get more compact by variety.
The first thing I want to do
is describe the difference between what we call
Trailing Petunia and Bedding Petunias. Some Bedding Petunias are only sold in
the four packs.
Trailing Petunias we sell individually in four inch
and two and a half inch. They're two different strains of
petunias. You will not get this affect with
a Bedding Petunia. It is impossible. So we do not use Bedding Petunias in any of our
hanging baskets.
We only use the Trailing Petunias and there's a group also called
vegetative which we'll get into a little bit later. So the most popular group, the
first group that
we know, probably twenty years
are the waves. So down below me here
we have some samples. This here is the Purple Wave,
the most popular Trailing Petunia there is. Easy Wave White.
So there's the Easy Wave Series and the Wave Series. The Easy Wave Series is a
little more compact
but we do prefer the Easy Wave White over the
wave variety in this
case. So Easy Wave White, we have
Lavender Wave, Blue Wave,
Pink Wave which is also the basket I was standing beside over here
and this introduction here is actually a sport that
we have found so it's Variegated Purple Wave.
So we had found a branch that had sported to to a variegated leaf
off of a regular Purple Wave plant. We took that off and it propagated from
that
and come up with this variety ourselves and
we have been selling it now for three years as the Variegated Purple Wave.
These also are the ones we use on our petunia trees so if you ever come by
in The Greenery,
even in June you can start seeing the effect of what these do
but that by mid-summer, they're in full force so we have a metal structure
holding 16 hanging baskets and by the mid season it's all
grown together and it just looks like one big, petunia tree
We always use the waves up there to get people example of what you can
with them. We do have those plants available for you to
print off of our website if you're interested in
getting involved in a large project like that. The next four baskets here are
double type of Trailing Petunias. the difference between
double trailing petunias and double bedding petunias,
the flowers are smaller but way more flower power.
So overall, you'll get more color in the whole
view of the basket and that no dead heading as well.
So these two examples here, this is the
Double Wave White and Double Wave
Rose. Two great examples and
nice full, double blooming petunias.
A little bit over here, we get into even a smaller
flower size. So this breed is specifically bred for
even heavier flower production but a little bit of a smaller flower is
the Blanket Series. So we got the Blanket white
and Blanket Rose. So just some great examples
of Double Trailing Petunias.